Tuesday, 1 May 2012

Coming Soon on Existential Ennui...

I'm back. Hang out the bunting, begin the ticker tape parade, etc. etc. – but don't go getting too excited just yet, because blogging will, for the moment, remain intermittent on Existential Ennui: there are still a fair number of matters to deal with at the new house, the most pertinent of which being the internet connection – or lack thereof. As a consequence, my posting on this 'ere blog – and on The Violent World of Parker blog for that matter – will likely remain sporadic for the foreseeable future, which in turn means that it's unlikely I'll be getting stuck into any series of posts – of which there are a number in the works – any time soon, lest they, out of necessity, tail off partway through.

That said, I may yet throw caution to the wind and dive into a series anyway, not least because some of the runs of posts I have planned promise to be pretty bloody special indeed, and may even, if I do say so myself, having the makings of greatness about them. So to get us back into the swing of things, I thought I'd preview some of those forthcoming delights, accompanied, as is traditional, by a selection of teaser images, which you can see scattered about this post. Some of these topics and authors, I realise, I almost certainly teased in my last "coming soon" post – and indeed the one before that – which only goes to demonstrate how long these things gestate in my fevered brain; but the majority I'm unveiling here for the first time.

10 comments:

I've got THE BOX somewhere as yet unread, but generally lauded as one of his best books.Willeford - I think his Hoke Moseley books are some of the best crime fiction I've read. I'll need to re-read them again soon. Col

Gordon: I haven't read that afterword, but it looks as though it might be the same as the Westlake/Rabe article I'll be blogging about, or at least excerpt from it. How long is the afterword? The original piece is pretty long.

Apparently Willeford didn't want to write a series so the 2nd Hoke book was written under duress - Grimhaven - but his agent told him it was unpublishable. After some arm-twisting by his wife and aforementioned agent he re-wrote some of it, with a more palatable outcome.

Large chunks of Grimhaven are similar to one of the subsequent published Hoke's..though I can't remember whether it's the 2nd or the 3rd,

Col, ta for that – and for the email, which I'll reply to soon as I can. Chris, apologies for not replying to your Killy comment, but I've only got a certain amount of time to spare for the blog at the moment. Interesting stuff, though, and I'll try and respond when I have more time.